foredeck
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- noun
- /ˈfɔːrˌdɛk/
- Specialized
- For a while, Gillian sunned herself on the foredeck, halter off.
- foredeck access
- foredeck hatch
- foredeck of a ship
Examples
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Larkin stood on the foredeck as Kittiwake merged with the mist, and a shadow fell across the deck.
Fiction book (1994) -
Fire on the foredeck... prepare to come around.
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Now... on the foredeck, here...
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Maybe you should inform the Captain the foredeck's shipping water.
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All right, we got 12 men topside, three on the bridge. . . four on the foredeck, five aft.
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The forward windows show the expanse of the ocean before them and the rusting foredeck about 150 feet below.
Fiction book (2002) -
Reith, after a word or two with Zarfo and Anacho, went to the foredeck.
Fiction book (1993) -
"They're all busy," he shouted, waving toward the cluster of men on the foredeck.
Fiction book (1998) -
Through the windshield, we see Leila, a muscular Filipina clambering over the foredeck.
Fiction book (1998) -
The slightly sloping foredeck gave us a good view of the water ahead.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foredeck is a simple compound: fore means 'front', the same 'fore' you see in forehead, and deck is the ship's floor. So foredeck literally names the 'front' part of a ship's deck.